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Clint Eastwood shared his bed with co-star and was sick of director on ‘dangerous’ Western
CLINT EASTWOOD, who turned 92 this week, has made many classic Westerns during his incredible career, but one saw him become so fed up with the director that they never worked together again, on a film where one of his co-stars ended up being “the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood”. This other actor was almost poisoned and decapitated on set and complained about the lack of safety around dangerous stunts.
Clint Eastwood is best known for playing The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s classic Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns, period cowboy movies filmed by Italians. Following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, the Hollywood star returned for a third outing that has gone down as one of the best of the genre. The 36-year-old would wear the same poncho he did in the first two films without having it cleaned, but he initially wasn’t happy with the script.
According to Patrick McGilligan’s Clint: The Life and Legend, he told Leone: “In the first film, I was alone. In the second, we were two. Here we are three.
“If it goes on this way, in the next one I will be starring with the American cavalry.”
Eastwood was concerned that “The Ugly” co-star Eli Wallach would upstage him, but ended up accepting the movie with a fee of up to $250,000 with a Ferrari and 10 per cent of the profits in the US.
Both actors then flew out to Madrid together for the shoot, however, they found the hotels were fully booked up.
As a result, The Man with No Name star invited Wallach to sleep at his friend’s house where the two actors ended up sharing the same bed.
The latter’s wife Anne Jackson said upon hear ing this that he could boast to be the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.
The Ugly star ended up having a rough time on the film, almost being poisoned after drinking from a bottle of acid that a film technician had put next to his soda bottle.
Wallach wrote in his autobiography that while Leone was an incredible director safety was very lax amid the dangerous stunts they were performing, with his life being threatened a couple more times.
Another was when filming the scene where The Ugly is sat on a horse with a rope around his neck to be hanged.
After a gun is shot, the horse was supposed to bolt but became so scared it ran for a mile with Wallach still having his hands bound. Luckily the noose had severed beforehand.
The third time was when he was chained to a body and had to sever the links on a railroad track as a train went by.
However, the crew and actor were not aware of the heavy iron steps that would jut one foot out of every boxcar. So if he’d stood up at the wrong time he could have been decapitated.
Meanwhile, Eastwood himself was becoming fed up with Leone as a director for all his demands and perfectionism.
The star hated smoking cigars and the filmmaker often insisted on multiple takes, exhausting his actors by shooting the same scenes from many different angles.
Wallach said his co-star would sometimes tell the director: “You’d better get it this time, because I’m going to throw up.”
By the time filming was completed, he’d had enough and the two never worked again, even though the director tried to pursue him for 1968’s Once Upon a Time in the West.
Leone wanted Eastwood to play Harmonica, a role that eventually went to Charles Bronson in that picture.
Years later, when shooting Once Upon a Time in America in the 1980s, Leone had his revenge, comparing him to Robert De Niro in the new movie, he said: “Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same—a block of marble. Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns.”
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Quentin Tarantino Wanted To Mimic 1 Iconic Clint Eastwood Trilogy Despite His Aversion To Sequels
Veteran director Quentin Tarantino has been an admirer of several other people for his own career. Getting inspired by the likes of Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone, Tarantino directed the Kill Bill movies.
Talking about the movie, Tarantino stated that the Kill Bill franchise was supposed to be his The Dollars Trilogy, Quentin Tarantino stated that he already has a story in mind, the director revealed that the story will indeed continue.
Quentin Tarantino Had His Own Clint Eastwood Trilogy!
Being a veteran actor and director, Clint Eastwood starred in The Dollars Trilogy with director Sergio Leone. Being years apart in the making, Quentin Tarantino had almost a similar style when he was making and directing the Kill Bill franchise.
Quentin Tarantino in Pulp FictionConsisting of Kill Bill Vol.1 and 2, the Uma Thurman starrer franchise has been recognized as one of the most iconic franchises of all time. Being known for his diverse work, Quentin Tarantino revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the Kill Bill franchise was his own version of Clint Eastwood’s The Dollars Trilogy.
“Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my “Dollars” trilogy. I was going to do a new one every 10 years. But I need at least 15 years before I do this again. Uma won’t be the star, though she’ll be in it.”
He further continued that he had already gotten the story down to the last detail and that a certain character would take revenge on the Bride. Stating that revenge is served to all, Tarantino might just make Kill Bill Vol. 3 if he wishes!
Quentin Tarantino Has The Story Ready For Kill Bill Vol. 3
Uma Thurman in a still from Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)As the interview continued, Tarantino revealed that he already has the story planned for Kill Bill Vol. 3. Talking about the details and storyline of the movie, Tarantino jokingly said that he could start shooting the movie now!
“Sofie Fatale [Julie Dreyfus] will get all of Bill’s money. She’ll raise Nikki, who’ll take on the Bride. Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as the Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they’re this age. It’s exciting to know that somewhere there’s a little girl who’ll grow up to be my leading lady.”
Having a high rating in the 80% range of Rotten Tomatoes, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 have been recognized as two of the iconic movies of Quentin Tarantino. With Tarantino allegedly working on his final film titled The Movie Critic, a third part in the Kill Bill franchise might never see the light of day (we hope not).
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